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Part 5: Quotes that make impact on America, running out of energy, oil, coal "The cheap oil age created an artificial bubble of plentitude for a period not much longer than a human lifetime....so I hazard to assert that as oil ceases to be cheap and the world reserves move toward depletion, we will be left with an enormous population...that the ecology of the earth will not support. The journey back toward non-oil population homeostasis will not be pretty. We will discover the hard way that population hyper-growth was simply a side-effect of the oil age. It was a condition, not a problem with a solution. That is what happened and we are stuck with it." James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency www.kunstler.com Top experts around the world understand that the energy slave called “oil” faces exhaustion within the next 40 years, if not sooner. Along the way, drilling for oil will prove more difficult, harder to extract and more costly. Fact: everything in America and most Western civilizations runs on oil. Oil allows billions of people to eat via tractors and harvesters of massive croplands. Without oil, 315 million Americans could not feed themselves and 7.1 billion humans around the planet would face enormous die-off. We humans cannot possibly plant and harvest enough food by hand to survive at 7.1 billion of us. We couldn’t pump the aquifers to irrigate crops. We couldn’t transport food fast enough by boat, donkey or oxen. That’s the problem. Oil will run out sooner or later. Nothing on the technological horizon can replace it. In order to drive cars, boats, planes and fuel industry, Americans use 20 million barrels of oil daily while the rest of the world burns 62 million barrels. That equals 82 million barrels of oil every 24 hours. When you multiply 365 days by 82,000,000 barrels of oil burned daily, it equals a whopping 29.9 billion barrels of oil annually.
(Processing crude oil creates unrelenting air pollution, carbon particulate and acid rain. Imagine millions of smokestacks pouring black soot into the air 24/7 and you breathe it. As China races toward 1.5 billion people all driving cars, you can imagine the environmental devastation of the natural world.) Photography by www.DreamsTime.com In his book, The Long Emergency, Kunstler discovered that China, at its current growth rate and placing 27,000 new cars on its highways every week, will burn 98 million barrels of oil per day by 2030. That’s more than the world burns daily in 2013. That means a whole lot of human beings will be screwed when oil supplies dry up. Along this fossil fuel burning path, we create enormous carbon footprint overload in our biosphere. We also acidify our oceans making life deadly for all marine creatures. Acid rain destroys soil-nitrogen balance. In other words, it’s going to get ugly worldwide on multiple fronts.
(Pumping and processing crude oil
wreaks havoc on the natural world. Oil pumping destroys the land for
centuries with oil-soaked soil. Sickening isn’t it? ) Photography
by Ed Burtynsky If you remember your science, it took two billion years to produce all the oil on this planet. In other words, when oil reserves decline, we exhaust the single major energy source that drives our civilization and most other societies on this planet. Alternative energy
won’t save humanity To show how much energy oil provides the U.S. annually, Michael Brownlee of www.transitionbouldercounty.org provided an astounding graph of one cubic mile of oil. That’s how much oil humans burn around the planet each year! That equals to the same amount of energy provided by 52 nuclear power plants built every year for 50 years or 104 operating coal-fired electrical plants built every year for 50 years or 32,000 wind turbines built every year for 50 years—and in continuous operation—or 91,250,000 solar panels built every year for 50 years.
In other words, oil produces
dramatically incredible amounts of energy that we cannot and will not
be able to duplicate in the coming years.
Dr. John Tanton, publisher of The
Social Contract at (www.thesocialcontract.com),
authored, “How Many is Twenty Million?” “In this age of millions, billions
and trillions, it’s hard to understand such numbers,” Dr. Tanton
said. “Twenty million is the number of barrels of oil we burn in
the United States each day.” That’s 42 gallons to each barrel
(drum) at 30 inches tall and 20 inches in diameter, or 840,000,000
gallons burned per day. It calculates, according to Dr.
Tanton’s figures, to three gallons of oil per day per person in the
USA. (Source: The Social Contract, winter 2004-05, page 151) He said, “Suppose we took 20 million
barrels and stood them side-by-side. How long a line of barrels
would that make? Let’s do the math: 20 inches/barrel
multiplied by 20 million barrels equals 400,000,000 inches.
Divide that by 12 inches/foot, and you get 33,333,333 feet.
Divide that by 5,280 feet per mile, and that comes out to 6,313
miles.” Dr. Tanton computed a string of
barrels, “…reaching from Seattle to Los Angeles (1,157 miles),
from Los Angeles to Chicago (2,134 miles), from Chicago to Miami
(1,377 miles), from Miami to New York City (1,281 miles), and from
New York City to Cleveland (486 miles). Total mileage, 6,435!” “That’s how much oil we burn in the
USA each day,” Tanton said. “The total global consumption
daily rate of 82 million would be four times this amount, or 25,000
miles—the circumference of the globe at the equator!” Dr. Tanton asks a sobering question, “How much longer can this go on?” The simple, unadulterated answer is: not much longer! You may want to read, Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein, physics professor at California Institute of Technology.
(Imagine millions upon endless millions
of miles of highways loaded with cars all burning gasoline and diesel
24/7. Imagine you breathe all that polluted air. Imagine what it will
be like when American adds another 100, 200 and 300 million more
people and cars. Imagine how the planet will react to another three
billion more people burning fossil fuels by 2050. Sick yet?)
Photography by Ed Burtynsky Another scientist, Dr. Richard C. Duncan, introduced the Olduvai Theory: The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge. The decline of the industrial civilization is broken into three sections:
(Americans wear out nearly 300 million tires annually. We throw them into huge dumps or burn them into the atmosphere. Imagine another 100, 200 and 300 million added Americans burning all that oil and burning up all those tires. Ever wonder what Mother Nature plans for us with all this abuse?) Photography by Ed Burtynsky “We will discover the hard way that population hyper-growth was simply a side-effect of the oil age,” said Kunstler. Instead learning a very harsh lesson bearing down on our society like a brakeless freight train, what can you do? As you become more educated and sobered to America’s population predicament, the logical question jumps up in front of your face: what can I do to help change course? We must stop endless population growth. We must work toward stabilizing America’s growth to live within the carrying capacity of North America. We cannot keep importing 7 out of 10 barrels of oil daily and think we will survive. We cannot keep importing millions upon millions of immigrants. Ultimately, we face collapse and a whole bunch of ugly scenarios. If you would like to make a difference, please join these organizations for the most effective collective action you can take: www.CapsWeb.org ; www.NumbersUSA.org ; www.TheSocialContract.com ; www.Fairus.org Join me, Frosty Wooldridge, with Dave Chaffin, host of the Morning Zone at 650 AM, www.KGAB.com, Cheyenne, Wyoming every Monday 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., as we discuss my latest commentaries about issues facing America. You may stream the show on your computer. You may call in at: 1-888-503-6500. ## In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation. Take five minutes to see for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE&feature=player_embedded “Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a few words, “Mind boggling!” www.NumbersUSA.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ This is the best website to start: www.numbersusa.org ; watch Roy Beck’s “Immigration by the Numbers” at 14 minutes. Bi-partisan and very effective. Become a faxer of pre-written letters to your reps to make positive change. Visit www.TheSocialContract.com for the best information on what we face as a civilization as to overpopulation, energy, immigration and much more. Canada www.immigrationwatchcanada.org ; in Australia www.population.org.au andPublicPopForum@yahoogroups.com; in Great Britain www.populationmatters.org ; and dozens of other sites accessed at www.frostywooldridge.com. In Florida, www.flimen.org . Must see DVD: "Blind Spot" www.snagfilms.com/films/title/blind_spot/ , This movie illustrates America's future without oil, water and other resources to keep this civilization functioning. It's a brilliant educational movie! www.blindspotdoc.com Must see: Rapid Population Decline, seven minute video by Dr. Jack Alpert- www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTWduFB_RX0 Dave Gardner, President, Citizen-Powered Media ; Producing the Documentary, GROWTH BUSTERS; presents Hooked on Growth: Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity, Join the cause at www.growthbusters.org ; Trailer to his latest movie on overpopulation: http://youtu.be/KLWxWOcUrVc
Check out this link with Wooldridge on bicycle and Lester Brown and panel discussion: www.upnorthmedia.org/watchupnorthtv.asp?SDBFid=1631 Tomorrow's Americaproject on www.youtube.com/contemporarylearning. Producer: GEORGE A. COLBURNwww.tomorrowsamerica.com DC: 202-258-4887
Email: gac@starbrightmc.com Link to www.tomorrowsamerica.com for more discussions on America's predicament. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Alexandra Paul talks about human overpopulation and saving our world by all women having 1 child only: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNxctzyNxC0 One planet, one child: http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/content/one-planet-onechild =================================================== We must come to terms with birth control and stabilizing human population. This three minute video brings the terror of India’s predicament up close and personal by Paul Winn of Australia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZKd_Jvf2_c This film will rock you: MOTHER: CARING FOR 7 BILLION Dr. Jack Alpert , www.skil.org
## Important books to read and educate yourself: Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation, edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist, 2012 The World Without Us, Alan Weisman 2007 A scholarly research on how the Earth will fare after Homo sapiens are gone. Man Swarm, and the Killing of Wildlife, Dave Foreman 2011 Mankind as locusts. Take Conservation Back, Dave Foreman, 2013 The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler, what America faces when oil runs out. Overshoot by William Catton Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Peak Everything: Facing a century of Declines by Richard Heinberg Plan B, 4.0, Saving Civilization by Lester Brown The Population Fix by Edward C. Hartman America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans by Frosty Wooldridge ## Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents - from the Arctic to the South Pole - as well as eight times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. In 2012, he bicycled coast to coast across America. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis facing America: what to do about it.” www.frostywooldridge.com . His latest book is: How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World by Frosty Wooldridge, copies at 1 888 280 7715/ Motivational program: How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World by Frosty Wooldridge, click: www.HowToLiveALifeOfAdventure.com Live well, laugh often, celebrate daily and enjoy the ride, Frosty Wooldridge Golden, Colorado www.HowToLiveALifeOfAdventure.com 6 Continent world bicycle traveler
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